UrbanThoreau Critiques: from Street to World and Back Again
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‘Sleeper’ items on Tuesday Council Agenda: Before the Pave, the Pipe
Below is an excellent little analysis of a couple of items destined to be rubber stamped by our paving council this evening. This comes from a small local listserv*: On just about every City Council Agenda you’ll find ‘sleeper’ items — seemingly innocuous — but which have huge implications in future. Twenty-or forty-years from now,…
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Madison Water Utility to Deliver Brown Water to Eastside Taps this Summer
Tuesday evening, 5/25/2010, the Water Utility Board will be meeting: 4:30 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD 119 E. OLIN AVE. ROOMS A & B (pdf of agenda here) Though the topic is not on the agenda, eastsiders are concerned about the Utility’s plans to open the spigot on Well 8 this summer. This is the well that…
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CARPC Comes Through for Clean Water
Capitol Area Regional Plan Commission really came through for clean water in Dane County. (See message below from Stefi Harris.) Many thanks to Western Dane County Coalition for Smart Growth & Environment and CRANES for all of their advocacy & research on this. And it even looks like Falk even kind of stuck her neck…
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MGE: The Rustbelt Mindset
Word has it that Madison Gas & Electric was the lead lobbyist in scuttling the state’s green energy plan during the state’s recent budget deliberations. One major component of the plan: 25% of state’s total energy was to come from renewables. It also included a massive conservation push. There were significant provisions for reeling in…
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Green Collar Job Symposium, Saturday May 1 — Tomorrow
Green Collar Job Symposium, Saturday May 1, Madison Labor Temple, 1602 South Park Street, 9:30 – 5:30.
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Na’avi Kickin’ Some Ass & Takin’ Some Names
Life is imitating Hollywood — in Afghanistan — as villagers rout the most powerful army ever fielded in the history of mankind.
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How Bad Planning Reduces IQ…and Pay
Denser cities do better economically. Why? Because they bring people together, through proximity & design.
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A Sure Sign of the Apocolypse
Detroit to unleash the power of hipsterism on its streets!
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